The Erupting Volcano Is For Sale And the Offers Have Been Made in Iceland!

 

You may not be able to pronounce at Fagradalsfjall Iceland's newest erupting volcano, but you may possess some of it. real estate agent

According to Icelandic media reports the eruption area west of the capital Reykjavik on the Reykjanes peninsula is on private land belonging to the landowners' association of around 20 individuals.

Association President Sigurður Guðjón Gíslason told Visir the group had already received inquiries from immobilizers and other stakeholders with a number of proposals.

"This must right now be the hottest country in the country," he whispered, adding that the group is ready to sell at the right price.

The eruption began in March and lasted for weeks and sometimes sends remarkable lava fountains into the sky through the largely empty landscape.

The site has attracted significant numbers of walkers, visitors, picnics and even sometimes the volleyball game.

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Gislason confirmed that since the eruption the interest in buying the property has come, suggesting that potential buyers might be interested in building on the potential for tourism.

In the meantime, the landowners are studying site improvement, including improved trails, parking and perhaps even a new highway, in order to significantly reduce the hours needed for walking to the eruption.

In recent weeks, an estimated 75,000 people have visited the site.

Lava-driven eruptions have made headlines in Iceland, Italy and Guatemala in recent months. The US Geological Survey (USGS) says that while the Southwest of America is often not seen as a hotbed of volcanic activity, it is probably the country's next hotbed.

A few hours west of Albuquerque, New Mexico tourists may travel to the National Monument of El Malpais through a relatively young lava flow. The Sunset Volcano National Monument reside in an active volcanic field close to Flagstaff and even look out of my window on the borders of Colorado and New Mexico.

"There are thousands of volcanic features in the Southwest of the United States that are collected in volcanic fields," USGS volcanologist Wendy Stovall says in a recent blog post.

But when we think about volcanoes in the United States, we focus - and devote our research resources - first on the region of Yellowstone and the Cascade Range volcanoes to the northwest.

It is easy to understand the reasons: one of these volcans has experienced a major eruption (Mount St. Helens in 1980) and some important population centers along the Pacific coast are crossed by the Cascades.

Arizona National Monument to Sunset Crater Volcano

"This means that we know relatively little about the eruption timing of most volcanic fields in the United States," adds Stovall. "Although the sparse geological evidence we know suggests that a cinter-covering and lava-flow eruption every 700 years in a typical volcanic field will occur more likely during the next few decades than an eruption from most volcanoes from the Cascade (excluding Mount St. Helens – the most active volcano in the cascade of Ran, with the exception of Mount San Helenes);

And if a south-western eruption would occur in this century, the high volcanic activity that we have seen from Mt. Etna in Italy, from Geldingadalur in Iceland or from Pacaya in Guatemala in 2021 could look like. The types of erupting magma seen in these sites are similar to what we expect from volcanoes in the south-western United States. "Vulcanic field eruptions, like southwestern ones, can last for days to years," writes Stovall. "The Paricutin eruption of 1943 in Mexico, which lasted for nine years, is an example of what might happen in the United States."

In case of such an eruption, it could be expected to have impacts on life in adjacent communities and broader effects on air travel, water storage, transportation and communication. The experience is testimony to residents living near Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano during its eruption in 2018. It might also be like living in a burning wildfire, but it lasts months or years.

'Ashfall can be cleaned, but waste water, air conditioning and heating systems and agriculture and cattle can be damaged by small quantities. These rashes emit tons of sulfur dioxide and degrade the quality of downwind air," Stovall said.

Many harsh predictions for southwestern America call for dry landscapes under the grip of climate-changing droughts. But this apocalyptic scenario could also be seen in the background with a few lava fountains.